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Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
WICHITA IN TIE PANHANDLE.

Wichita. the largest as well as the
liveliest city in Southern Kansas, is
stretching out her arms to receive the
trade OF the Panhandle. Favored by
nature, Wichita, by her energy and
business foresight has made great con
quests and has achieved brilliant victo-
ries. Like Alexander. Wichita was sigh
ing for new fields that she conquer them
when the southwest extension of the
Santa Fe railroad began to penetrate the
Panhandle. Seeing the opening she re-
garded it as a trust. Wei has Wichita
merited the title. Queen Of the South
west. Canadian CTeX.) Crescent.
The EAGLE is delighted to find so intel
ligent and enterprising a contemporary as
the Crescent in the grand and rapidly
developing Panhandle country; one that
has the foresight to comprehend the mu-
.ual advantages that VIII result from
closer business relations between that
section and Wichita. What they want
Is q convenient market, rot only for the
sale OF their products but likewise for
The purchase Of their supplies. Yhey
have already learned that in both these
respects this city fully meets their re-
Juirements, and with the increased rail
road facilities which will he afforded in
the near future, business intercourse VIII
be immensely au"mcntel.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

Besides the eight public school build
ing5 costing from $4,000 TO $40, 600
each.
Under construction will be found an
Episcopal church costing $4,000, be
sides twenty-seven churches already
completed. In the northeast part of the
city see the Gilbert Plow works, brick
buildings now being constructed. One
60x2S0. one 60x150 and two 35x35 feet,
at cost of $25. 900
Then we go north to the Burton Car
works and see what is being done there.
Here you will find six large brick build
ings nearly completed and machinery
being put in place. Three of the build
ings will be S0x250 feet. one 60x250. one
60X200 and one 3jx40 feet. Already
nearly seventy dwelling houses are COM
pleted.
The company viii expend over $780,
COO in buildings, machinery and work on
other improvements before they are
completed.
Between the car works and the city.
near the Union Stock yards, is located
the immense packing house Of Jacob
Dold Sc Son. The plans for the build
ings are drafted for a capacity of 1900
hogs per day, and work will soon COM
mence.
The establishment will be one of the
largest in the west and the best and
most complete for handling hogs and
cattle in the world
In West Wichita the Wichita Watch
Works are at work and pushing forward
to completion a building $50 feet front
and three stories high, as rapidly as pos
sible.
Other manufacturing establishments
complete and in operation as well as
under construction will be found all
over the city which space will not allow
mentioning at the present time. Drive
through the residence portion of the
CITY and count the two thousand and
more residences which have been erected
in the past wear and the thousand under
construction. then carefully ponder over
these facts and then ask yourself If all
of these miles Of beautiful streets and
shaded avenues with elegant residences.
block after block of magnificent business
houses of brick and stone; the twenty
eight churches. eleven universities.
colleges and academies. the car works.
plow works. watch works. and other
manufacturing establishments the sixty
mile of street railway 10 accommodate
a city of #. 600 or more people have been
put here for nothing: ASK yourself why
the Atchlson. Topeka & Santa F., 81.
Louis & san Francisco. Missouri Pacific
and the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
railway. the great trunk lines Of the west
have built into the city, and if they are
not here 10 stay:
Trace back the record Of this city and
sse If everything that she has undertaken
has not been success. AID il beng a
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
WAS ALWAYS A CENTER.
A Cardinal City of Definite Destiny.
Kit Carson. General Harvey and Colonel
Dent Figured Upon Her
Historical Grounds.

If there is any person who doubts what
is being done in Wichita to make her a
city, and city greater than any other
west of Kansas City. let him come here
and examine for himself, bearing in
mind, that the foundations for large
city at this point was commenced years
ago, when this was a trading post for the
Indians of the southwest. that it was here
that the great treaty between the United
States and the Wichita's, Cheyennes,
ArapahOes and other tribes of Indians
was consumated:
When Kit Carson, General Harvey
and Colonel Dent as representatives of
the United States, met the chiefs of all
these tribes of Indians in conflict.
That all great cities of this country
have been located and built at these very
places where the Indians were wont to
meet in grand council and had their
trading posts.
At the meeting of the waters of the
Big and Little Arkansas, in less than
seventeen years city has been built
numbering over 10000 souls. The larg
est in the state and the greatest COM
mercial point of the southwest.
Come and see whether Wichita is build
ing as many and as costly business blocks
as has been represented. Go along
Douglas avenue and see if the following
business blocks were built in the past
year, then say to your friends that the
half has not been told,
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
WICHITA AND K. C. SOLID,

Eli Perkins writes from Kansas to
Henry Clews & Co.. bankers. Of New
York; I've just been through Kansas.
Missouri. Nebraska and Minnesota.
never saw times better. never saw the
cars SO crowded. There is no sign of a
whiting boom in the west. I've passed
over l.000 miles Of Missouri Pacific. 1t
is well managed. The management is
economical but thorough Their trains
are loaded. 1t is earning its dividend if
ever earned it. The boom in Kansas
comes from prohibition. Kansas used
10 send ont %22 ,0o9. $50 wear for WHISKY
and beer. Il is not sending out over
$1,000, 000a year now. This saving of
SlS.0G0. 900 a year by Kansas is making
a surplus for the people and reducing
the surplus of the United States. Wich-
ita and Kansas City are solid. There
Will be no panic The railroad building
has peopled the west with new people
who bring money.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
WHAT THE FIGURES LOOK LIKE.
An Official Statement of the Financia
Condition of Sedgwick Comfy.

As the low taxes of Wichita and Sedg-
wick county seemed to take the state by
surprise, and as the EAGLES published
statement has drawn out many criticisms
and observations from newspapers which
seem to express incredulity we herewith
give an official statement of the financial
condition of the county and city, certi
fled to by the proper officials. 1t will be
observed that the great tax of the coun-
ty is for school purposes, being 1871, 013,
Sc there being upwards 80
schools as against $11,2S9 only
for interest on indebtness. The
railroad for which the bonds are out
standing, Ghe c., K. & NJ was not
assessed this year, thirty miles of which
lies within the county. nor was the Kan
sas Midland, twenty miles of which lies
within the county, both of which viii be
assessed next year, fifty miles more road
together with nearly six millions of other
property which has been added since the
last assessment, and which will make
the per cent of taxation still smaller for
the coming years. The following is the
official statement of the financial condi-
ton of Sedgwick county, Kansas,
December 10th. 1887:
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
THE FRISCO AND WICHITA.
Big Railroad system and It's Big City

Our dispatches of Friday morning an
pounced that meeting of the direc-
TORS of the st. Louis & San Francisco
railway, held in New York City, the day
before by unanimous vote gave assent to
issuing of fifty million dollars bonds to
raise funds to make extensions of that
road. one of which extensions is now
being built from Wichita northwest,
known as the Kansas Midland. Another
extension will be the Indian Territory
line into Mexico. A private letter from
an officer OF that road to the editor of the
EAGLE yesterday confirms the report
which leads us to remark:
Fifty millions of dollars will build and
equip about two thousand five hundred
miles of road. Such an addition not
only means that the Frisco is TO become
one of the greate-t systems in the coun-
try, but that railway building in the
west will continue for two more years at
least. as the extensions OF one system
always forces counter extensions from
other interested systems.
The Frisco system will not only be,
therefore, one of the most important III
the west, but it is a system which has no
affinities with the Missouri river, no in
terest in the Missouri river rates. no care
for any pool at Kansas City. Not only
that, but the city OF Wichita is the larg-
est CITY outside of st. Louis on Its entire
line, greatest in population and III wealth
and far the greatest III the matter OF
tonnage. What result such q state of facts
must lead to need not be outlined. This
great railway sill in its own interest
naturally take an interest III the city to
which its fortunes are most intimately
joined, and the FRISCO will inevitably
become TO Wichita what the Santa Fe is
to Kansas CITY. As Wichita viii be the
the next live stock market and packing
point west of Kansas City, the Frisco
can and viii haul to this market live
stock from central and northern Kansas
and from eastern Kansas, and even west
arn Missouri over lines already construct
ed. But the bulk of this traffic to the
Friscos biggest town must come from
he southwest and the Indian Territory.
10 hold the same relation to Wichita
that the Santa Fe has to Kansas City,
the Frisco ought, in fact, must, con-
struct line or link between Wichita
and her southern line.
And our prophecy is that she will.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

fact is it not reasonable to suppose that
she is in better position today to carry
forward to a successful termination all
her undertakings than she was to bring
herself up to the present city that she is.
with all that she has had TO contend
with when she virtually had nothing:
And is it not reasonable to suppose that
the enormous amount of money which
has been expended here. and which will
be in the future, is for the purpose of
fulfilling the plans mapped out by the
men of brains of this city of destiny?
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION

The Topeka Capital appears Wednes-
day morning in a new dress. upon which
ii will please accept our congratulations
But the Capital in Il flaring head label
claims the largest circulation in Kansas
To this we have 10 say that if We can't
show that the EAGLE has twice as many
subscribers-prints daily twice as many
papers as the Capital, we will make that
Institution present Of the biggest news
paper and printing establishment in the
state of Kansas. Give Us rest on the
circulation racket o. come down and
take our properly.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

We see it stated that Mr. Buck, Mr..
Clevc!and's appointed minister 10 Peru,
VINO is now rusticating at his Kentucky
home. Is liable to enter the arena as a
rival to Mr. Beck for MS seat in the
United States senate When il Is re-
membered that everybody. even IN Ken
lucky. was asking who the dickens ~
Beck when he was appointed on his
mission il viii be quite natural 81 suspect
there is something besides Mr.. Bucks
personal ambition prompting the suggest
ed move. and since il is known that the
great Louisville daily has been after 3ir.
Beck's scalp for some time il is not diff
cult TO divine where the inspiring cause
emanates from. I0wbeit tho canny
Scot has proven equal 10 several such
emergencies IN hfs time. and 10 must h.
allowed besides. that hc has wonder
fnlly strong hold upon the rank and file
Of the one-gallus Kentucky democracy.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

stolen thunder j. what the Wash
ington correspondent 81 the Glole-Dsm-
ocrat denominates the presidents refer
ence to the wool question in bis message.
He SAYS that Cleveland utfefances on
that point are almost q verbatim rtiteri-
ton &C Congressman Dockery campaign
speeches last year Is the Missouri
statesman Is more nearly related - Mr.
Cleveland. politically, than Grandfather
Dana. Of the New N0f. sun, II a MT
likely that he VII make a much fuss
about the plaaiarbn as the last named
gentleman did IN tlc cyclorr.iia episoie
recently.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
TIE MAIN E CORN PACK.
From BradStrects.

TI'h bFdGNlTtttS
An increase of - per cent in the amount
of corn packed by the various concerns in
Maine this wear is reported while the
quality OF the grain is unusually excellent.
The demand Tor the article from the west
and south is particularly good. Accord
ing to the Portland Press the products of
5000 acres of Maine farms is used in can
ming establishments. Packing is now one
OF the leading industries of Maine One
Portland company has sold during the
past year, 203.o0o cases, or !. S52000 cans.
Another. with number of factories, has
packed this season, 1880, OOG cans
With such a showing as this in
spite OF the great disadvantages the
Maine farmers labor under in the matter
of short seasons and sterile land as com
pared to this great valley country. what
may our people not accomplish in the
same direction once embarked in like en-
terprises. Not only in the production of
corn. but all other vegetables susceptible
of cultivation in this latitude does South
ern Kansas excel, and the packing and
canning of the same has proven ex-
ceptionally profitable wherever
it has been undertaken. even
on a comparatively small scale The
demand for this class of goods is grow
ing and our Judgment Is that it would
be next to impossible 10 overdo the
matter if our products that are suited to
such treatment were diverted to those
channels for market and consumption.
and there is no question but that the
profits Of the producer would be largely
increased thereby. The advantages to
our people in this matter are TO our
mind so potent as not to need argu-
plpuf
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
7 olaI taxes. ........Sl0l.551 s.
TAXES AND TREASON.
Wichita's Overdue Interest and Millions
OF Foreclosures.

Within the month last past there APP
peared in the Boston Herald. the Chi
cago Times, and in two or three other
eastern journals of lesser note. letters
bearing date of certain cities in this
state which We're devoted to Wichita.
and which letters We're simply infamous
in their Misrepresentation. The letter
to the Herald stated. irrequivocally. that
one hundred and twenty thousand dol
lars OF overdue coupons on interest notes,
secured by mortgage, had gone to pro-
test III Wichita within a month. The
/ letter TO the Times as emphatlcally de-
clared that foreclosure proceedings, COW
erlng immense sums Of money, had been
instituted against property III this city,
and 50 on. The other letters were
equally outrageous. While the truth is
there has been no protests. no default on
overdue paper or overdue interest of any
character. and no foreclosure proceed
ings whatever, any simple newspaper
denial would have amounted to little, so
we made none. Time and truth can
only wipe out such Misrepresentation
/ However. to show up Wichita
side in an affirmative way
the EAGLE took up the taxes
of some OF the towns from which these
letters eminated and compared them to
those of Wichita. This was done in
our last Sundays issue. The resultant
kicking and squealing is very amusing,
and nobody enjoys it more than we do.
There has been no attempt TO refute our
disclosure by showing that the official
figures We're tempered with or the facts
garbled. nor can there be: but, epithets
are multiplied and denunciations piled
up until innocent and minformed read
er5 of these papers in the cities alluded
to- no doubt have long since concluded
that high treason is innocency itself com
pared to the enormity of the crime of
which the EAGLE stands charged.
1t only remains for us to remark that
we went to the largest money leaning
concern in this state. which is located i'll
this city. and which has now loaned in
southern Kansas five million seven hun
bred thousand dollars. less than seven
hundred thousand of which is on Wichita
property. and that said institution
has less than six hundred dollars of I'M
paid interest for the years 1886 and 1887:
and that we went to the president of
another which has upwards of two and
half million loans. less than one-third of
which is in Wichita, and their defalca-
tons are less than two hundred dollars
up to the first day of December. 1897
The records OF our courts show that there
has been but one foreclosure in wear
and that on a farm. These facts have
been certified to by the presidents and
secretaries of the loan associations and
by the president and secretary of the
board of trade and by the manager of the
clearing house aud forwarded to the
papers named which NAV or may not
correct their misrepresentation.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
MATTERS MATBRIALIZING.

The EAGLE, in It's last Sundays issue.
in summing up some of the more import
ant OF the great interests centering in
Wichita. incidentally alluded to others
which were under negotiation and 50
forth, whose character ANA Importance
would even interest the state at large.
One of these we had hoped TO be able to
announce this morning as having made
all the necessary preliminary arrange
ments. While this particular one is sure
10 come TO Kansas. and To Wichita. the
officers and stockholders are nor ready
yet to make public their intentions.
Suffice it to say that three of It's repre-
senatives have been in the city nearly all
the week. and on Friday had long and
satisfactory conference with the direc-
tory OF the Board Of Trade and unless
the entirely unexpected should happen,
Kansas City can get ready IN the next
thirty or sixty days, for another blue
day.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
4 mAolclAxs WAND.

Fro-r 80 rD1ye cry Tl-a-
4 gentleman speakin2 81 Wichita fhs
other dag asks few questions with re-
gard 20 that city which VIC append.
As stood on the brad street, # this
BUSTING citv few days azo. ] felt b.
wiideresI while thinking over and box
ing AZ the marked cilangs@ decade hal
wrought ! asked what magician bad
evoked tines sta,eiy structure from tbs
wilderness What Hizslrsi wand bal
waved thsss lately uubyokeu plains ard
given shaEs and proportions - thee
preffs fuane3eT1s. and tp1fchei iisess
beautiful hGHa~s vitfs rainbow husss
what hard helJ the falftte and brush
thai tinted tasefn ~ deiieaieiy ~ tfse
hgbfs ard stal0zs that Simmer ~ the
sutanaer k,rceLsS
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
Go on Main street and look at the
loving buildings erected the past year:

The new government building is well
under construction, and when completed
will cost 100000
The universities, colleges and other
school buildings should be visited, and
the magnitude of the building in this
line compares favorably with any city of
the west.
The Lewis academy is already com
pleted at cost If $4,000, and under
construction will be found
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

lest AucHss the secretary ~ The IT,
tsrsaE appointed 3 c'sgErsiaslss q ',asfiaisle
into tire condition = lard grant granted
fnT wagon r,1sslg ia Oregon. The eesfzs-
raAssstzg employed q stsgscsZraisssff -
Portland were engaged IL shs %erk ORR
,iIrss. months. traEerssFiE tas - ltSas fsld
and ;akEn, testimony wfssch Vas sf1s-
lalnesi ~ sts-fsosgrspbae h5esus,iy Flsses.
It's. sxssenas - csssFszs- ss@s EeEF larzss
Issen sssx si..ss5zrsgs hsT. k.chzEz.sgA. szzs
taken sch and dsszl. SOS tsse Faiazfsis
tsssisn1ny i ~ = sstiaSfan IN iha fern
81 shssrzlsAn5 motss. utterly fzlualszzs 49,
saslze essesa exE-sTts czaao< ass-ipiseg -
sssaxs tkssrFs hans ;o--sfhsF. ansi the a0<k
wiIl have b - lozse over again ,)ssata
R<puaascsn.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

4 Florida congressman who was lately
tried by his church for working on sun
day. proved that he never DAD HEX -
ysork IN bis life. An exchange suggests
that ie join Denni, Kearney's working
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

The Eagle explains itaf the reasau
wichita DID not AK for "a national cgBv~fa-
fi8n j. fccau=e conventions are only fFauS-
tory concerns Wichita wants sonnet Aing
chat il can hold onto aud Rougr ti.e meat
ont 81 ~ Emporia Republican.
jesse. Hogs and cattle. for instance.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

Lincoln. Neb.. has a parallel TO the
famous Cluverius case of Richmond,
Virginia. Beers. who was convicted at
Lincoln last week of numbering his
sweetheart falling 10 get a new trial,
was yesterday sentenced TO be hanged on
April Is. ISSS. He received his sentence
with stolid indifference.
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

Among The buildings under construct son
Is al opera house. a government bniIdInE
for postoflice the work on which Seems
- progress as fast a. the march u a snail.
a handsome Office building by Rouse a.
Blackweldcr and several colleges IN the
suburbs, the Garfield University being 30
most exJens. ve-built 81 stone. surrounded
By spaciOus grounds and costing when
completed. s5OGn
was next taken 20 the Office ~ Smith.
OZaune * Co. n leading real estate firm
" here ] had quite an interesting TAX }ith
MIR Oscar Smith. 81 the firm. au iHFfuen-
tiaI business man with regard 70 v icilta
ADvASTAGEs FoR NsXrFacTUESg.
sThe advantage We have here for man
ufacturing." remarked Mr.. Smith, are
not appreciated as much ~ they should
be '-N hat do yOu mean. bT the people
here" ! asked No. ! rgfsT 20 The people
who live in the cas-; and are looking atguf
for invest rneuts II this sort IhFy DON
appreciate what We base. and ~e EFa8f -
make them realize T. IN the tlrst place
W. have cheap land. secondly, proper
RAILWAY facilities thirdly. an
engerprising community wa3 are
willing 70 offer Iuducemeni. % bring
manufacturing establishments. fourthly.
our location and - on For = nauufac-
turing or wholesale mari ] DO MT think
any other city IA I; be county i mon adsan-
- s1s-ts f2iatA if-a-
Looking upon ttss- map here yDu perceive
Wichita away of here ia the sDgtygest err
Ter OF the fertile -~un1csser' state ansas
over - miles iron ~ Ioll5s sud. kaF.
50 CITY. our distance frsggm fl34s- f5t.es
therefor, prevents them from existing aaY
evll int'gieTsce over 0ur Wssele.a3e OF utsuu-
FEATURING trade. - The syufh s. ,be rlch
OklEisau4g co8ntry ard tRe Indian Terri
tory. and ~ iiss sasgf Invest the Ergsat state
- Texas directly wssf lie the ors zpd s1sai
- Colorado. .ifh 70 poirsf n any eorn
FsFsssgre size 1h8s s5C3e = iDrlve~ AyF
all Il this ree5eu j. tributary 20 Wichita
and BgFast receive - supsssiss fr0fn $ sefs5
- "A the eoaDtTy aiIs up car
- 1.ssaie trade and FEaa1sBfsGszF
iug musf 5ncres4se- THE r. tgsr flfne ~ take
81 rautssa q The opportunities effsFfsi
= ssets seEnenI s. gong on Our gillsinzs
;Tlsrie - alrezsaig extensive ard our FaA0Es-
FEATURING Interests gssife aTnssrusas.
=" y assl are SOME .. Tie uaoss Ez.sogfant7'
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11
DEPENDED UPON.

American Banker.
4 prominent Chicago. H., insurance
man recently visited Kansas City. No,
and Wichita. Kan, on tour Of inspec-
ton. He found evidences Of substantial
as well as speculative growth. and as his
inquiries were made for the purpose OF
shaping to some extent the policy Of an
insurance company IN the conduct Of lis
business in the west, ii IS safe to assume
that the views expressed are c0nserva-
tive and the facts TO be depended upon.
He writes:
In Wichita / confidently expected u
find evidences Of collapse, and
was prepared To take deci-
sive steps To reduce our liability;
but after patiently locking over the
ground, taking plenty Of TING for 20 do
ing. / came 70 the conclusion that II was
not a good time for "a doing. In CONVEX
sation with raj estate men, learned
that all transactions made IN Wichita
were on the basis Of about 80 pr cent
cash and the balance inside Of 3 year,
bat usually nos later than nine months,
and that up 10 this tITne no sales under
foreclosure had occurred. To be sure.
outside property is not ~ active as il Evss
in the spring. though there eioes not seem
IL be any undue anxiety to unload
Wichita eagle., 1887-12-11

John Roach's shipyards at Chester,
Pa, are again busy. The frames for the
Puritan are being laid. She Is TO be a
sister ship of the Pilgrim. of the Fall
River line. which cost $3.50. 900. \ large
steamer for the Standard Oil company is
about completed, and contracts have
been signed for the building OF two new
gun boats Tor the navy.